Off and on for the past five years the former NZ chief nurse has been island-hopping the Pacific helping nations create mental health policies and services. Fiona Cassie reports. 'Give a man a fish; feed him for a day. Teach ...

Public health and private industry can work together to improve outcomes for mental health services, writes Kaye Knight and Tim Lenten. Delivering and achieving consistent education outcomes can be a challenge when mental health clinicians are spread geographically. A collaborative ...

Without improved communication between health professionals, mental health outcomes will remain less than perfect. Annie May reports. Sometimes homeless, at times experiencing problems with drugs or alcohol or simply suffering a mental health episode - people with a mental illness ...

A new survey has found people are reluctant to be vaccinated against the flu. New findings released last month by the Influenza Specialist Group have led experts to call upon nurses to challenge what they believe is risky behaviour of ...

Risk statistics can be used persuasively to present health interventions in different lights, say researchers. Health professionals and consumers may change their choices when the same risks and risk reductions are presented using alternative statistical formats, a new study has ...

A Senate inquiry will investigate the competence and resourcing of AHPRA. In two months time almost every nurse and midwife in Australia will be required to renew their registration if they want to be able to continue practicing. But unless ...

From April, the Priceline chain will offer a walk-in service across its 120 pharmacies where customers can buy the influenza vaccine over the counter. Plans for patients to be given the flu vaccine in pharmacies without the need of a ...

Sharon Humphries finds out how volunteering can make a world of difference. Each day brings new challenges for volunteer nurse educator Di Brown, on assignment in an under-resourced hospital in Bali. More than half way through a two year assignment ...

At 12.51pm local time on February 22, Christchurch was rocked by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake. The city was devastated, many were dead, more were injured and medical teams faced a situation "as bad as it could get". Fiona Cassie reports. ...

Preceptors could benefit from having a structured way of thinking about their students skills, writes Peter Kieseker. Stephanie Fox-Young, RCNA president recently wrote in an editorial how graduates needed to be supported as they start their practice and that access ...